The Press., 1887-11-17

TYRS TO LIBERTY AND LoYH or HUMAN uh' @ t
 The anarchists by their course the past week have made the distinct issue as to whether this country shall be republic or despotism. It certainly will not pass under the rule of tyrannical dynamiters without struggle. America shall be kept free, and made safe habitation and ref uge for industrious, law.abiding people. The threats 10 use violence have not i'm. peded the progress of impartial justice to the caged murderers in Chicago, except that Gov. Oglesby on Thursday commuted the sentence of two of the least guilty to l imprisonment for life. These were Fielden and Schwab, for whom this degree of elem ency was asked by theiudg who sentenced them. Also on Thursday morning Louis LingR, the most desperate of the condemn ed men, committed suicide. The guard at his cell door had turned his back to the bars a moment when there was a muffied report, aud puff of blue smoke passed over his shoulder from the dark recess be- hind. Then ensued wild rush of depu- ties, the changing of iron gates, and above the confusion and din the hoarse shouting of the guard "It's Lingg It's Lingg 1" l l movement q turnkey flung the cell door , open and wftii an eager peep into the shAd- ows two excited deputies jumped pell-mell | in. Their eiacnlations of horror brought the other guards quickly within the coll Soon group of guards bore ont the body of Lingg.
 To all appearances the anarchist was stark dead. The entire lower half of the face was gone, including the upper lip and jaw and the under fraction of the nose. Where it had been was now a jngged, bloody fgap extending across to the ears and down to the 'Adam's apple" "Open your eyes, Lingg," exclaimed the jail doctor, who had just reached the room. To the astonish- ment of the bystanders, Lingg's eyes open cd and looked calmly about him. He was immediately raised to a table and propped up with pillows, was washed hurriedly, while cloth bandages were passed around the lower part of the face and around the top of the head, hiding all but the nose, eyes and forehead, all loose dangling bones and flesh being cut away.
 r The gutta percha mouth of fountain syringe was inserted with a doctors finger into the great hole left by the dynamite. By this method water and brandy were ad- ministered. This was repeated at inter vals, Lingg meanwhile gazing steadfastly about him watching every move of those in the room, but apparently indifferent to what they did, and caring nothing about the almost ceaseless slsmminR of the door only few feet distant. Every now and then, without any seeming immediate cause, fearful hollow grooming would sound through the bandages. Listeners, aghast, would abandon the room, only to give place to new set not yet weakened Nxyf wit ha ohap
 Lingg moved his long sinewy right arm easily --his left hand was torn by the dyna- mite-and without trouble wrote in Ger man simple directions as to raising him higher or the like Beyond a glance of recognition to Capt. Black, who came into the room for a moment and said, "Poor, poor fellow" there was nothing to break the horrible agony of six mortal hours wait for deaths approach. Lingg's breath ing gradually became slower. The pallor on the forehead deepened. A slight glaze was noticed in the now sunken eyes, his breast heaved once and was still. he died at 2;50 p. ID.
 Jailor Folz was asked to explain the way in which Lingg had kept his dynamite cap from the eyes of his keeper. Said he "You know that Lingg had very bushy head of hair. It is not without the bounds of possibility that he placed the cap in his bushy locks and kept it there while we searched him last Sunday. At that time he was stripped completely. My deputies searched all his clothing and could find nothing of suspicious character"
 The tragic end of Lingg has created a change in public sentiment regarding the finding of bombs in his cell on Sunday morning. A belief was growing that the bombs had been placed~ there surrepti- tiously by some one identified with the authorities for the purpose of creating a sentiment unfavorable to the prisoners, and that the cell of Lingg had been se- lected because he was tho acknowledged maker of the bomb used at the Haymarket meeting but the event of the day has re- suited in reconciling every one to the be- lief that in his desperation and morbid sense of fidelity the cause of the aparch- ists, Lingg had succeeded in some way in providing himself with the bombs for the purpose of emphasizing the close of this dreadful drama. The fact recalls bis speech at the trial, in which he said
 declare once more here openly, with all my powers, with all my mind, must combat such disorder and scoundrelly acts even if this praiseworthy object should be defeated 
 smile. You perhaps think l will not use bombs any more, but I tell you die gladly upon the gallows in the sure hope that hun dreds and thousands of people to whom have spoken will now recognize and make use of dynamite. In this hope I despise you and despise your laws. Hang me for it.
 The above quotation illustrates the de- termined character of the man, and this trait has been most terribly exemplihed in the proceedings of the day.
 THE HANGING.
 The prisoners went upon the gallows on Friday about 11.45. They kept up their bravado till the last. Too evidently they were backed up by artificial stimulation. B efore the hanging they were iocular and defiant, and at 10 o'clock Eugel struck up the Marseilles hymn, the others joining. They went upon the scaffold with ashen faces, but we'll concealiug any trepidation they felt. All the prisoners died of strau- gulation, save Engel, whose neck was brok- CD. ....-.. .
 So ends these lives, for whose extinction men have hoped in the interest of humani- ty. A maddlin sentimentality would have softened the penalty, perhaps have extend ed pardon. Had this sentiment prevailed